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Acronyms and Abbreviations

4MOST 4-Metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope
A&G acquisition and guiding
AAAC Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAG Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants
AAS American Astronomical Society
ACT Atacama Cosmology Telescope
ACTPOL Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization Survey
ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
ADAP Astrophysics Data Analysis Program
ADAS Astronomical Data Archiving System
AEON Astronomical Event Observatory Network
AER Astronomy Education Research
AGB asymptotic giant branch
AGEP Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
AGN active galactic nuclei
AI artificial intelligence
AIP American Institute of Physics
AIPS Astronomical Image Processing System
ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
AM CVn Canum Venaticorum
AMANDA Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array
AMEGO All-Sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory
AMO atomic, molecular, and optical
ANITA Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna
AO adaptive optics
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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AO announcement of opportunity
AON Arctic Observing Network
APC activity, project, or state of the profession white paper
APL Applied Physics Laboratory
APO Apache Point Observatory
APOGEE Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
APRA Astrophysics Research and Analysis
APS American Physical Society
APT Advanced Particle-Astrophysics Telescope
ARA Askaryan Radio Array
ARC Astrophysics Research Consortium Telescope
ARGOS Advanced Rayleigh Guided Ground Layer Adaptive Optics System
ARIANNA Antarctic Ross Ice-Shelf Antenna Neutrino Array
ARIEL Atmospheric Remote Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-Survey
ASAS-SN All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae
ASCR Advanced Scientific Computing Research
ASKAP Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
ASM adaptive secondary mirror
AST NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences
Athena Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics
ATI Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation
ATP Astrophysics Theory Program
AU astronomical unit
AUI Associated Universities, Inc.
AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
AXAF Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
AXIS Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite
BAO baryon acoustic oscillations
BBN Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
BH black hole
BICEP Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization
BOINC Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
CALIFA Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area
CARMA Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy
CASTOR Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and UV Research
CATE cost and technical evaluation
CCAT Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope
CCD charge-coupled device
CDM cold dark matter
CE Cosmic Explorer
CERN European Council for Nuclear Research (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire)
CETUS Cosmic Evolution Through UV Surveys
CGI coronagraph instrument
CGM circumgalactic medium
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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CHARA Center for High Resolution Astronomy
CHEOPS Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite
CHIME Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
CHORD Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-Transient Detector
CLASS Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor
CMB cosmic microwave background
CMB-S4 Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4
CME coronal mass ejection
CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor
CMS concept maturation study
CNES Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales/National Centre for Space Studies
CNM cold neutral medium
CORF Committee on Radio Frequencies
CoRoT Convection Rotation and Planetary Transits
COS Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
COSI Compton Spectrometer and Imager
COSMO Coronal Solar Magnetism Observatory
COVID-19 coronavirus disease 2019
CPD circumplanetary disk
CPU central processing unit
CSBF Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
CSDC Community Science and Data Center
CSMA Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy
CSO Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
CSWA Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy
CTA Cherenkov Telescope Array
CTE coefficient of thermal expansion
CTIO Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
DA discovery area
DECam Dark Energy Camera
DESI Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DFW drop, fail, or withdraw
DKIST Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V./German Aerospace Center
DM dark matter
DMR Division of Materials Research
DMS Division of Mathematical Sciences
DoD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DRM design reference mission
DSA-2000 Deep Synoptic Array 2000
DSOC deep space optical communications
DST/HCIT Decadal Survey Testbed/High Contrast Imaging Testbed
EBIO Education, Broader Impacts, and Outreach
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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EDGES Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature
E-ELT European Extremely Large Telescope
EGS Extended Groth Strip
EHT Event Horizon Telescope
ELT Extremely Large Telescope
ELTP Extremely Large Telescope Program
EM electromagnetic
EoR epoch of reionization
EOVSA Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array
EP3 Effective Practices for Physics Programs
EPRV extreme precision radial velocity
eROSITA Extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array
ESA European Space Agency
ESCAPE Extreme-Ultraviolet Stellar Characterization for Atmospheric Physics and Evolution
ESDIS Earth Science Data and Information System
ESM Electromagnetic Spectrum Management Group
ESO European Southern Observatory
ESS Exoplanet Science Strategy
ETL Exoplanet Technology Laboratory
Euclid DF-Fornax Euclid Deep Field Fornax
Euclid DF-S Euclid Deep Field South
Euclid NEP Euclid North Ecliptic Pole
EUV extreme ultraviolet
EVLA Expanded Very Large Array
Far-IR far-infrared
FASR Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope
FaST Faculty and Student Teams
FAST Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
FBOT fast and blue optical transient
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FDSS Faculty Development in Space Sciences
FIP Far-IR Imager Polarimeter
FMR SOFIA Five Year Flagship Mission Review
FOBOS Fiber-Optic Broadband Optical Spectrograph
FOM figure of merit
FOV field of view
FRB fast radio burst
FTE full-time employee
FTS Fourier transform spectrometer
FUV far ultraviolet
FY fiscal year
GADGET Galaxies with Dark Matter and Gas Interact
GALAH Galactic Archaeology with HERMES
GALFA Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array HI Survey
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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GBO Green Bank Observatory
GBT Green Bank Telescope
GC globular cluster
G-CLEF GMT Consortium Large Earth Finder
GECAM Gravitational Wave High-Energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-Sky Monitor
GeMS Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System
GEP Galaxy Evolution Probe
GeV gigaelectronvolt
GLAO ground layer adaptive optics
GMACS GMT Multi-Object Astronomy and Cosmology Spectrograph
GmagAO-X Giant Magellan Telescope Extreme Adaptive Optics
GMT Giant Magellan Telescope
GMTIFS GMT Integral Field Spectrograph
GMTNIRS GMT Near-IR Spectrograph
GNAO Gemini North Adaptive Optics
GO guest observer
GOMMTD Great Observatory Mission Maturation and Technology Development
GONG Global Oscillations Network Group
GOODS-N Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North
GOODS-S Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-South
GPI Gemini Planet Imager
GPS global positioning system
GPU graphical processing unit
GR general relativity
GRB gamma-ray burst
GRE Graduate Record Examination
GR-MHD general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
GST Goode Solar Telescope
GUSTO Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory
GW gravitational wave
GWOSC Gravitational Wave Open Science Center
Gyr gigayear
HabEx Habitable Exoplanet Observatory
HAWC High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory
HBCU Historically Black College and University
HE high energy
HEASARC High Energy Astrophysics Science Research Center
HEP High Energy Physics
HERA Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array
HERMES Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite
HET Hobby-Eberly Telescope
HI neutral hydrogen
HIRAX Hydrogen Intensity and Real-Time Analysis Experiment
HOSTS Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems
HPC high-performance computing
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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HPD half power diameter
HR Hertzsprung-Russell
HSI Hispanic Serving Institution
HST Hubble Space Telescope
HTC high-throughput computing
HXDI High Definition X-ray Imager
HZ habitable zone
IACT Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope
IAU International Astronomical Union
IceCube-Gen2 IceCube Generation 2
ICM intracluster medium
IFU integral field unit
IGM intergalactic medium
IGW inflationary gravitational waves
IMBH intermediate-mass black hole
IMF initial mass function
INCITE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment
IPAC Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
IPTA International Pulsar Timing Array
IR infrared
IRAF Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
IRIS Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
IR/O/UV infrared/optical/ultraviolet
IRTF Infrared Telescope Facility
ISM interstellar medium
ISO Infrared Space Observatory
ISS International Space Station
ITU International Telecommunications Union
IXO International X-ray Observatory
IVOA International Virtual Observatory Alliance
IXPE Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer
JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JHU Johns Hopkins University
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JWST James Webb Space Telescope
KAGRA Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector
KAPA Keck All-Sky Precision Adaptive Optics
KBO Kuiper Belt object
KLIP Karhunen-Loève image processing
KPIC Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer
KPNO Kitt Peak National Observatory
LAT Large Aperture Telescope
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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LBA Long Baseline Array
LBT Large Binocular Telescope
LBTI Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer
LBTO Large Binocular Telescope Observatory
LCIT Large Mission Concept Independent Assessment Team
LCOGT Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope
LDB long duration balloon
LEAP Large Area Burst Polarimeter
LEDA Large-Aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Ages
LEO low Earth orbit
LGBTQIA+ lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, plus
LHAASO Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory
LHC Large Hadron Collider
LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
LMA Lynx Mirror Assembly
LMC Large Magellanic Cloud
LMT Large Millimeter Telescope
LSST Legacy Survey of Space and Time
LTAO laser tomography adaptive optics
LTK local and traditional knowledge
LUVOIR Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor
LXM Lynx X-ray Microcalorimeter
LyC Lyman continuum
MAGIC Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescope
MaNGA Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO
MARC Maximizing Access to Research Careers
mas milliarcseconds
MCAO multi-conjugate adaptive optics
MEMS micro-electro-mechanical-system
MESA Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics
MEV Maximum Expected Value
MHD magnetohydrodynamics
MIDEX Medium-Class Explorer
MINERVA-Australis Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array-Australis
MIR mid-infrared
MIRC Michigan Infrared Beam Combiner
MISC-T Mid-Infrared Spectrometer Camera Transit Spectrometer
MKID microwave kinetic induction detector
MKO Mauna Kea Observatory
MKSR Mauna Kea Science Reserve
MLSO Mauna Loa Solar Observatory
MMA multi-messenger astrophysics
MMT Multiple Mirror Telescope
MO and MoO mission of opportunity
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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MOAO multi-object adaptive optics
MODHIS Multi-Object Diffraction-Limited High-Resolution Infrared Spectrograph
MP Mentoring Plan
MPE Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
MPS Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
MREFC Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction
MRI Major Research Instrumentation
MROI Magdalena Ridge Optical Interferometer
MRSEC Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
MSE Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer
MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center
MSI Minority-Serving Institution
MSIP Mid-Scale Innovations Program
MSO Mid-Scale Opportunity
MSRI Mid-scale Research Infrastructure
MUCERPI Minority University and College Education and Research Partnership Initiative
MWA Murchison Widefield Array
NANOGrav North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEID NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler Spectroscopy
NEO near-Earth object
NEOWISE Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer
NFIRAOS narrow field infrared adaptive optics system
ngVLA Next Generation Very Large Array
NICER Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIR near-infrared
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLSO NASA LISA Studies Office
NN-EXPLORE NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research Program
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatory
NOIRLab National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory
NPOI Navy Precision Optical Interferometer
NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NS neutron star
NS-EOS neutron star equation of state
NSB National Science Board
NSBP National Society of Black Physicists
NSF National Science Foundation
NSHP National Society of Hispanic Physicists
NSO National Solar Observatory
NSPIRES NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System
NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration
NuSTAR Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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NVO National Virtual Observatory
NWNH New Worlds, New Horizons report
O&M operations and maintenance
OIR optical and infrared
OMB Office of Management and Budget
ORM Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
OSS open source software
OSS Origins Survey Spectrometer
P5 Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel
PAARE Partnerships in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research
PAG Program Analysis Group
PAH polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
PAMS Portfolio Analysis and Management System
Pan-STARRS Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System
pc parallax of one arcsecond (parsec)
PDR Preliminary Design Review
PER Physics Education Research
PFS Prime Focus Spectrograph
PGRE Physics Graduate Record Examination
PHAT Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury Project
PI principal investigator
PIC particle-in-cell
PICASO Planetary Intensity Code for Atmospheric Scattering
PICTURE Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment
PISN pair-instability supernovae
PLATO Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars
POEMMA Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
POLARBEAR Polarization of Background Radiation
PTA pulsar timing array
PTF Palomar Transient Factory
PUI Primarily Undergraduate Institutions
PUMA Packed Ultra-Wideband Mapping Array
QCD quantum chromodynamics
QIS quantum information science
QSO quasi-stellar object
R&D research and development
RBIS research-based instructional strategies
REU Research Experiences for Undergraduates
RFI radio frequency interference
RFI request for information
RICE Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment
RMS radio, millimeter, and submillimeter
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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RMS root mean square
RNO-G Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland
Roman ST HLS Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope High Latitude Survey
ROSAT Roentgen Satellite
ROSES Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences
RV radial velocity
RXTE Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
SACNAS Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
SAFARI Spica Far Infrared Instrument
SALT South African Large Telescope
SAO Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SAT Small Aperture Telescope
SAT Strategic Astrophysics Technology
SATCON Working Group on Satellite Constellations
SCExAO Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics
SCT Schwartzchild-Couder IACT Telescope
SDO Solar Dynamics Observatory
SDSS Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SEA Change STEMM Equity Achievement Change
SED spectral energy distribution
SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
SFR star formation rate
SGMA Committee for Sexual-Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy
SIM Athena Science Instruments Module
SIRTF Space Infrared Telescope Facility
SKA Square Kilometre Array
SLSNe super-luminous supernovae
SMA Submillimeter Array
SMARTS Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System
SMBH supermassive black hole
SMC Small Magellanic Cloud
SMD Science Mission Directorate
SMEX Small Explorer
SNe supernovae
SO Simons Observatory
SOAR Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope
SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
SOLIS Synoptic Optical Long-Term Investigations of the Sun
SOMER SOFIA Operations and Maintenance Efficiency Review
SPB super pressure balloon
SpecTel Spectroscopic Survey Telescope
SPHERE Spectro-Polarimetric High-Contrast Exoplanet Research Instrument
SPHEREx Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer
SPICA Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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SPO South Pole Observatory
SPT South Pole Telescope
SQL structured query language
SQUID superconducting quantum interference device
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
S-STEM Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
STDT science and technology definition team
STEM science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
STEMM science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine
STIS Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
STMD Space Technology Mission Directorate
STOP Structural, Thermal, and Optical Performance
STScI Space Telescope Science Institute
SVOM Space Variable Objects Monitor
SWGO Southern Wide-Field Gamma-ray Observatory
SZ Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (effect)
TAP Transient Astrophysics Probe
TCAN Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics Networks
TCU Tribal College and University
TDA time-domain astronomy
TDE tidal disruption event
TEAM-UP National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy
TES transition edge sensor
TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
TIO Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory
TK Indigenous traditional knowledge
TMT Thirty Meter Telescope
TOM target and observation manager
TRACE Technical, Risk, and Cost Evaluation
TRL technology readiness level
TSIP Telescope System Instrumentation Program
TTV transit timing variation
UHE ultra-high energy
UHECR ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
ULDB ultra-long duration balloon
ULTRA Ultra-Stable Large Telescope Research and Analysis
ULX ultraluminous X-ray
URO University Radio Observatories
USRA Universities Space Research Association
UV ultraviolet
UVOT UV-optical telescope
VERITAS Very Energetic Imaging Telescope Array System
Suggested Citation:"Appendix P: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26141.
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VFP Visiting Faculty Program
VHE very high energy
VLA Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
VLASS Very Large Array Sky Survey
VLBA Very Long Baseline Array
VLBI very long baseline interferometry
VLT Very Large Telescope
VLTI Very Large Telescope Interferometer
WC Women’s College
WD white dwarf
WEAVE William Herschel Telescope (WHT) Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer
WFE wavefront error
WFI Wide Field Imager
WFIRST Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (renamed as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescop)
WFOS Wide-Field Optical Spectrometer
WFS wavefront sensor
WGAD Working Group on Accessibility and Disability
WIA Women in Astronomy
WIMP weakly interacting massive particle
WISE Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer
WIYN Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO Observatory
WMAP Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
WNM warm neutral medium
WRC World Radiocommunication Conference
XGS Lynx X-ray Grating Spectrometer
X-IFU X-ray Integral Field Unit
XMM-Newton X-ray Multi Mirror Mission
XRISM X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission
XRP Exoplanet Research Program
ZDI Zeeman Doppler Imaging
ZTF Zwicky Transient Facility
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